It was the best of flushes, it was the worst of flushes; it was the age of comfort, it was the age of thriftiness; it was the epoch of relief, it was the epoch of inequality; it was the season of one-ply, it was the season of two-ply; it was the beginning of a new roll, it was getting down to the last square; we were all going direct to the bathroom on the top floor, we were all watching our dreams go down thetoilet.

Such were the dramatic terrors and inequities revealed in an investigation published in a student newspaper at Ryerson University in Toronto last week. A tenacious student reporter discovered that those in positions of power at the college had been hoarding a treasure that students were desperate for, creating a system of plumbinginequality.

The blockbuster story on Water Closet–gate begins, “There’s two-ply toilet paper at Ryerson — and if you’re a student, you don’t getany.”

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The Eyeopener discovered a box of the two-ply goodness on the bottom of the Student Campus Centre (SCC), which raised questions of which bathrooms they’re usedin.

Student washrooms are stocked exclusively with that translucent, gotta-fold-it-thirteen-timesone-ply.

The top two floors of Jorgenson Hall — 13 and 14 — carry the thick, absorbenttwo-ply.

The story is accompanied by an infographic titled “Unflushing Toilet Paper: A RyersonTissue.”

The university president, Sheldon Levy, whose office is “steps away from the two-ply supplied bathroom,”told the Ryerson Eyeopener that the revelation of a “two-tiered” toilet system was “shocking” and “embarrassing.” The National Post did some follow-up reporting and found that other universities in Ontario have a far fairer system when it comes to distribution of strategic reserves of extra-soft and quilted wealth. An official at the University of Guelph bragged, “We have one-ply tissue campus wide, from the president’s washroom to the studentresidences.”

The story is accompanied by an infographic titled “Unflushing Toilet Paper: A RyersonTissue.”

The university president, Sheldon Levy, whose office is “steps away from the two-ply supplied bathroom,”told the Ryerson Eyeopener that the revelation of a “two-tiered” toilet system was “shocking” and “embarrassing.” The National Post did some follow-up reporting and found that other universities in Ontario have a far fairer system when it comes to distribution of strategic reserves of extra-soft and quilted wealth. An official at the University of Guelph bragged, “We have one-ply tissue campus wide, from the president’s washroom to the studentresidences.”

The story, which one tweet summed up as “Cl-ass warfare,” might finish with a happy ending, too — the college is looking into a change that would bestow luxurious bath tissue to the masses across campus. First they have to figure out if the college’s old pipes — and budget — could handle such arevolution.